Police Violently Press Civilian onto the ground

22:36 | Tseung Kwan O
From the evening of March 8 to after mid-night on March 9, police arrested over 40 civilians in Tseung Kwan O.

Police seemed to have targeted the civilians who attended a peaceful memorial held for the 22-year-old student Chow Tsz-lok who passed away 4 months ago. Chow fell from a carpark in the area during police operation and the cause of his fall remains unknown.

Video: Marco Pang /City Broadcasting Channel #Mar8

Plainclothes Police Wield Baton at Reporters After Identity Disclosed

2249 Kwong Ming Court, Tseung Kwan O

As riot police pushed forward, several plainclothes police, however, had their identity unexpectedly disclosed.

The plainclothes police then wielded baton at reporters and screamed "go forward" amidst the chaos they created. They entered a residential area and arrest several citizens in black.

Video: Marco Pang / City Broadcasting Channel #Mar8

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Police Arrest Teenager Brutally

Further to the earlier post about riot police arresting a teenager in white t-shirt against the wall.

A video in Facebook has captured the suspected same teenager being caught by several riot police officers with excessive violence including a choke hold, for unknown reason.

Further reading:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18347

Video: Internet #Mar8

FTU member denied sending medicine to stranded medicine was an election operation

Chief Executive Carrie Lam worked as a hotline operator on Friday (Mar 7) for sending medicine initiative organized by Hong Kong Federation of Trade Union (FTU). Legislator Wong Kwok-kin, also a member of FTU, expressed that because of the long-term Mainland service network of the FTU, it can quickly deliver medicines to Hong Kong people stranded in Wuhan. He emphasized that sending medicines was an voluntary action of the Federation , rebutting Democratic Party, Tu kun-sun's accusation that their actions were "election operations."

Source: InMedia HK #Mar8 #ChinesePneumonia

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Hong Kong Microbiologist and SARS expert: Hospitals I visited in China are "units on display"

Hong Kong Microbiologist and SARS expert Dr. Yuen Kwok-yung was officially invited to visit Wuhan, the epicenter in China, from 17 to 19 January 2020.

He told a state-owned journal that the places he was invited to visit were probably "units on display". In addition, all heath authorities and hospitals, government officials, health officers to medical workers, seemed to have "model answers" ready for his questions.

For instance, it was only after Zhong Nanshang pressed for answers, that he found out a patient has infected 14 medical workers, proving that human-to-human transmission occurred.

Source: Stand News #Mar8
Photo: New York Times

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Police Officers' Unreasonable Stop-and-Search & Questionable Handling of Personal Data and Security Risks

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During Sunday evening (8 March), police officers had unreasonably stopped and questioned heaps of civilians at various locations in Tseung Kwan O, people ranging from the elderly to children who followed their families to mourn were intercepted.

A civilian who had been searched by police officers within the cordon told reporters that he had witnessed the usage of WhatsApp, instead of the usual notebook, to record the identity and data of the person being searched, leading many to question whether the risk of leaking personal data of the intercepted person had increased,. He suspected that some personal information of demonstrators has been leaked out by this way.

He added that the intercepted civilians were divided into two groups, those who were searched in the streets where could be monitored by reporters were treated well, while those who were searched inside a carpark were treated badly. The civilian said that as soon as they entered the carpark, dozens of police officers swore at him, shoved him, and even called him mentally handicapped, indicating the police's explosive and unstable emotion states.
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Photo / Icy, Cheung Ming Kin @ CBC
Source: City Broadcasting Channel (CBC)
#Mar9 #PoliceState #PoliceBrutality #Remembrance

#HKMedics #Cartoons
Hong Kong Doctor uses animal characters to promote public health

The workload of medical staff has increased drastically since the spread of Wuhan pneumonia to Hong Kong. A doctor in Hong Kong has taken her break time to create illustrations with health advice, and work with Sham Shui Po District Council to promote personal hygiene and other health precautions during this coronavirus outbreak.

In the illustrations, a gorilla is shown washing hands, and a leopard is wearing a mask. Together with six other animals they form a team promoting useful anti-epidemic information in doctor's uniforms.

Dr Lucci Liyeung is the illustrator and an orthopaedic surgery resident in a public hospital. She has always been in love with drawing, and created these animal characters several years ago. She wishes to address the public's concerns over the epidemic with her illustrations.

Source: Now News #Mar8
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About 200 civil servants asked to leave for refusing to pledge loyalty to the government

In a media interview, Secretary for the Civil Service #PatrickNip Tak-kuen said if public servants refuse to take the oath of loyalty, “it is up to them if they choose to leave the government. It is not a bad thing for our team of civil servants.”

During a press conference on March 8, he was asked again to confirm if there were already 200 public servants who refused to take the pledge, which was a new requirement added by the government in January.

He admitted there were “about 100-200 who did not pledge”. He said that he felt disappointed in them, and will follow the procedures to terminate those staffers.

Source: Stand News; #Mar8
https://www.thestandnews.com/politics/公務員宣誓-聶德權-約-200-人拒簽聲明-將讓他們-離開公務員隊伍/